Samsung's Suzanne Nguyen talks the potential of wearables

my name is suzanne nguyen and i'm the director of developer marketing at sansa uh my role is really to drive that next big thing within the developer community okay that's cool called samsung's messaging that's very interesting because i've i've been seeing but there's been one thing that you've been particularly pushing today and it could well be the next big thing which is wearable tech and you've been really pushing the samsung gear could you tell us a little bit about what you're hoping to do with that and what the samsung gear is perhaps maybe people haven't heard about it right so you know wearables is really the new frontier and i think there's been a lot of wearables out there and people trying to find use for different wearables especially in the health industry but samsung's leading the way and making it more connected to your life and you can wear

and do normal things that you would do with your phone perhaps but you don't have to have your phone with you all the time sometimes it's clumsy to carry your phone around like this is the gear too for instance so you can swipe here to go to your different applications you also have a camera feature out of interest i mean obviously this is pocketgamer i was wondering have you seen any potential applications of the gear within gaming are there people looking at apps perhaps which use it for mobile games well you know i actually thought there is a lot of games in the samsung app store today that you can load on your gear device and play games on it so the wonderful thing about development for the gear is your app or your game can actually be standalone or it could be connected to your device or working together with your devices just to sync with your device so there are several ways that you can play your game or

um have interactions with your game okay so well that sounds very interesting i think it seems to me that one of the things that you're thinking is that wearables are going to be one of the key trends for the year i mean have you got any other major trends that you're thinking about in 2014 are there something is there something you're expecting to see go huge in the mobile industry in the next couple of months i think you know content and services um just being connected using your mobile devices or your wearable devices with different appliances the smart tvs for instance samsung has a great smart tv line using your devices with the smart tv having it multi-screen perhaps those are some other things that i think you can see in the future really integrating and connecting your life your mobile with your life yeah it's turbocharging the internet of things exactly and so how could people get involved how could developers i mean you're promoting

the samsung gear app challenge i believe yeah how can how can developers get involved in making their apps ready for wearables right so the samsung gear app challenge um is really two 200 winners can win up to 1.25 million dollars in prizes it's really out there so that we could get developers to start thinking about gear and they can learn more about it by going to developer.samsung.com there's a tutorial there's ways to teach you how to get started with wearables in in gear also if you go to uh gearapp.challengepost.com you can learn more about the challenge itself the deadline though for submission is july 17th for the first round for the top 200 winners okay so if people are interested in whereabouts it sounds like they've got to do it now well thank you very much for joining us it sounds absolutely fascinating and best of luck with the

wearable revolution thank you very much for having me here it's awesome pocketgamer and pgconnect it's an awesome event you